Back then I was heavily criticized by the Oracle/PeopleSoft ecosystem as exaggerating the reports of the death of the once-king of HR systems. ON DEATH ROW: Innovation goes out the window when Oracle comes through the door. Hardly surprising when we realize that last time Oracle brought truly great innovation to the IT market was THIRTY YEARS AGO with the modern relational database.

PARIS As any experienced observer of our industry knows, the weaker the message a software company has on offer, the higher in the corporate hierarchy it has to go to deliver it. Oracle did not fail the tradition as a posse of vice-presidential bigwigs led by the head of its HCM development organization, descended a couple of weeks ago upon the City of Light (the home of yours truly) as part of their Fusion global roadshow. As soon as Oracle finalized its acquisition of PeopleSoft in 2005, it announced it was starting work on the successor product. The stakes are high.

Oracle, by just announcing last week its acquisition of talent-software leader Taleo, showed it was enforcing the same principle. With customers stubbornly refusing to buy its pseudo-SaaS offering called Fusion, Oracle was left with no other choice but to go and buy a customer base. This defensive move, as a reaction to SAP, is not unusual for Oracle. Why Taleo? Winners.

Yes, we’re all buried in Oracle announcements, and it’s astonishing how wild is some of the coverage. Oracle’s partnering with Microsoft is interesting (you’ll have to check out the relevant press releases, news conferences, etc. Is this really about Oracle’s fear of Workday and/or SAP and a mega-effort to cut them off at the pass?

Her recent guest post was the impetus for my finishing this post, which I had started right after Workday went public on 10-12-2012.]. PeopleSoft changed the way that HR leaders thought about technology by giving them the ability, without programmer involvement, to add a data element here, write a report there, and use the software directly without a data entry shop.

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Bangalore, heart of the Indian IT industry before heading back to Europe for a 10-day training on Workday in London. Interesting how one''s center of universe tends to change over time: for a decade when I worked for US software powerhouses PeopleSoft and Oracle it used to be San Francisco, now that I work for an Indian company it ''s as far east as I have ever been.) The wide availability of IT capabilities in India means that companies tend to over-customize some HR processes rather than rely on standard software. at least! They now have a structural problem."
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[Full disclosure: Workday is a client, but I attended their Tech Summit 2012 and a portion of Workday Rising 2012 as an "influencer," and my related travel expenses were reimbursed by Workday.] . You may have thought that everything that could be said about Workday’s Tech Summit 2012 had already been posted, but you were wrong. WDAY @ Workday ‘s interrogatory configuration tool accelerates configuration of SaaS tenant, supports sales demos as well as implementation 2:58 PM – 5 Nov 12 . Paul Hamerman ? paulhamerman . The bottom line.
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Everybody's Talkin' [Full disclosure: Workday is a client as are a number of their competitors. More importantly, I been looking under the covers of HRM enterprise software practically forever, and before that I was writing the code.] . still haven’t digested every word in Workday’s recently released S-1, nor am I likely to do so before I publish this post. There’s been a good big of discussion about the customer lock-in aspect of Workday having 3-5 year non-cancellable contracts per their S-1. Lock-In. Professional Services.
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Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield, Workday Founders/Co-CEOs. Full disclosure: Workday is a client, and I was a compensated speaker at Workday Rising 2011. Positive customer/prospect sentiment — It was very hard to find unhappy or even less than enthusiastic Workday customers or prospects (300 prospect people here from 100+ companies, many of which are very big names planning to rip and replace their ERPs, starting with HCM and whose names are off limits for tweeting etc. Enterprise Software HRM Software Naomi's Speaking Engagements WorkdayMORE >>

The market for corporate talent management software continues to surge forward. HR Systems ADP CornerstoneOnDemand halogen Oracle SAP successfactors Talent Management workday Our new research shows that this exciting market grew by 17% last year and is now over $5 billion in size. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.
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